{"id":1329,"date":"2026-05-10T19:30:12","date_gmt":"2026-05-10T19:30:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nc500.madaxeamps.co.uk\/?p=1329"},"modified":"2026-05-10T19:35:19","modified_gmt":"2026-05-10T19:35:19","slug":"day-1-invernahavon-to-golspie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nc500.madaxeamps.co.uk\/index.php\/2026\/05\/10\/day-1-invernahavon-to-golspie\/","title":{"rendered":"Day 1: Invernahavon to Golspie"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Full intention to make an early start for Inverness. Failed. As it turned out, we had plenty of time to stock up on food for a future evening’s meal and fill the diesel tank. To be fair, we had 203 miles left in the tank from home to Invernahavon so pretty impressive fuel economy for a van weighing >2.6 tonnes. Diversion to Rogie Falls. Not a single salmon in sight anywhere, save for those reduced to pulp being sold in the car park.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Rogie Falls. Tick. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Next stop; Tarbet Ness Lighthouse. Cold and wet. ‘Dreich’ as the Scots would say. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Facts:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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  1. Tarbet Ness is Scotland’s third tallest lighthouse<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  2. Built by R. Stevenson in 1830 after 16 vessels were shipwrecked<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  3. It is said the site was once a Roman fort and then a witchs’ coven<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n\n
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    Finally, up to the campsite at Golspie and a brisk walk to the Golspie inn for tea (and a much needed beer)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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    Full intention to make an early start for Inverness. Failed. As it turned out, we had plenty of time to stock up on food for a future evening’s meal and fill the diesel tank. To be fair, we had 203 miles left in the tank from home to Invernahavon so pretty impressive fuel economy for … Continue reading “Day 1: Invernahavon to Golspie”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"cybocfi_hide_featured_image":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1329","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nc500"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nc500.madaxeamps.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1329","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nc500.madaxeamps.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nc500.madaxeamps.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nc500.madaxeamps.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nc500.madaxeamps.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1329"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/nc500.madaxeamps.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1329\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1340,"href":"https:\/\/nc500.madaxeamps.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1329\/revisions\/1340"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nc500.madaxeamps.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1329"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nc500.madaxeamps.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1329"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nc500.madaxeamps.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1329"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}